Letter V Classical Radio this week

March 20
1-3 p.m. EDT
1700-1900 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Hamish MacCunn: “The Land of the Mountain and the Flood”
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Grant Llewellyn (Argo)

Past Masters:
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor (“Scottish”)
London Symphony Orchestra/Peter Maag (Decca)
(recorded 1960)

traditional: “Oh, the broom”
(original ballad and versions by John Playford and Gay & Pepusch [from “The Beggar’s Opera”])
Patrizia Kwella, soprano; Paul Elliott, tenor
The Broadside Band/Jeremy Barlow (Harmonia Mundi France)

Alexander Reinagle: “Occasional Overture” in D major (1794)
(reconstructed by Bertil van Boer)
Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois (Naxos)

traditional: “A Scots Rant,” “A Trip to Killburn”
Baltimore Consort (Dorian)

Songs by Robert Burns:
“Auld Rob Morris” (arranged by Haydn)
“Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn” (arranged by Haydn)
“The bonny wee thing” (arranged by Haydn & Beethoven)
“Duncan Gray” (arranged by Beethoven)
“The lovely Lass o’Inverness” (arranged by Beethoven)
Lorna Anderson, soprano; Christine Cairns, mezzo-soprano; Harry Nicoll, tenor; Alan Watt, baritone
Scottish Early Music Consort/Warwick Edwards (Chandos Chaconne)

Beethoven: “Air and Variations on ‘O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie’ ”
Utako Ikeda, flute; John Kitchen, fortepiano (Chandos Chaconne)

Malcolm Arnold: “Four Scottish Dances,” Op. 59
London Philharmonic/Malcolm Arnold (Phoenix)

Robert Burns: “Auld Lang Syne” (arranged by Leopold Anton Kozeluch)
Lorna Anderson, soprano; Christine Cairns, mezzo-soprano; Harry Nicoll, tenor; Alan Watt, baritone
Scottish Early Music Consort/Warwick Edwards (Chandos Chaconne)

Stephen Foster: “Hard Times Come Again No More”
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Molly Mason, Mark Rust & Garrison Keillor, vocal harmonies
Jay Ungar, violin; Molly Mason, guitar; Tony Trishka, banjo; David Alpher, piano (Angel)